Crony Beliefs

Credits up front: This essay draws heavily from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, Robert Kurzban, Robert Trivers, Thomas Schelling, and Jonathan Haidt (among others I’m certainly forgetting). These are some of my all-time favorite sources, so I hope I’m doing them justice here.

Revealed and Stated Identity

In modern America, many people think of their identity as a thing they own. If I say I’m a Brony, have a…

The Developmental Role of Play

When I was a kid, maybe around 8 or 9, I had a cabinet full of Legos. To the casual observer it was a few messy shelves crammed with plastic blocks, but to me it was a portal into another world. Opening it up I’d see little buildings and people resting in suspended…

Integrity for consequentialists

On being a good person without compromising on consequentialism.